From Aug. 16-20, 2015, more than 2,000 institutional investors, analysts and industry professionals will converge in Denver to capture intelligence from more than 110 oil and gas exploration and production, midstream, oil service, LNG, capital and global market experts, and C-level energy executives at North America's largest oil & gas-focused investor conference.

Important Energy Companies Coming to Denver

The 20th anniversary of EnerCom's The Oil & Gas Conference® will feature company presentations by management teams from some of North America's top oil and gas companies, with exclusive Q&A breakout sessions. The conference provides oil and gas industry leaders an opportunity to discuss year-to-date results and outline future plans with institutional investors, private equity investors, industry research analysts, and commercial and investment bankers.

Where is the Industry Now and Where is it Heading?

After a pattern of producing and selling $90+ oil, the industry was jolted when OPEC announced its decision to maintain its production rates. The announcement, which came on Thanksgiving Day 2014 in the U.S., sent global commodity prices into a tailspin and energy exploration companies were thrust into a new reality.

Calls for cost containment, creating efficiencies and preserving liquidity replaced the push to borrow money, acquire more acreage and drill baby drill. The majority of North America's independent E&Ps put the brakes on their future drilling and development plans and cut billions from their 2015 (and 2016) spending plans. Energy fund managers, analysts, hedge funds, private equity groups, investment banks and individual investors are asking "When will the shale boom ramp up again?"

In response to a 50% reduction in oil prices, innovative shale producers created and maximized new drilling and completion technologies to run an "end-around" what some analysts were calling an all-out Saudi-led price war against the shale movement. Energy companies have quickly learned how to produce more oil much more efficiently from their shale operations -- even in an environment of vastly reduced capital expenditures and cost slashing. As a result, U.S. production rates have stabilized although rig counts dropped dramatically in the first half of 2015.

Saudi Arabia continues to deny it has targeted the North American shale producers, all the while adding barrels to its own production during the past few months. Meantime, new wild cards have emerged. Iran's post-sanctions oil production is soon to flow into to new global markets, Mexico has invited foreign investment into its energy resource sector, and U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) development is accelerating with first cargoes slated for Asia and Europe likely to come out of the U.S. Gulf coast in early 2016.

Tough questions abound. What do economists and market strategists foresee on the demand side? How long before Mexico's open door to foreign investment in energy development jumpstarts a renaissance of that country's production? How long will the shale industry's successful "produce more with less capital investment" initiatives stay ahead of decline curves? How will Iran's post-sanctions additions to the world's oil supply affect the global energy equation? With China's growth slowing, when will parity return and allow commodities prices to come back?

In addition to the many public and private oil and gas industry presenting companies, a large group of well-known energy experts will try to bring clarity to the complex global energy landscape as featured speakers at EnerCom's 20th anniversary The Oil & Gas Conference® at the Downtown Denver Westin Hotel, August 16-20:

Jeb Armstrong, Vice President Energy Research, Marwood Group: "From Exports to Rail Cars: Our Outlook for how Washington, D.C., Will Impact Oil & Gas Producers Over the Next Several Years";

EnerCom's The Oil & Gas Conference® will again host more than 2,000 investment professionals and more than 100 presenting energy companies with operations spanning more than 40 countries on six continents. Enterprise values of the presenters range from approximately $9 million to $160 billion and market capitalization is widely distributed. Presenting companies include:

Continental Resources (ticker: CLR) and Whiting Petroleum (ticker: WLL), the two largest independent oil producers in the Williston Basin, with enterprise values of $19 billion and $9 billion, respectively;

WPX Energy (ticker: WPX), an active buyer and seller with newly-purchased acreage in the Permian Basin and enterprise value of $4 billion;

Cheniere Energy (ticker: LNG), on track to be first to market in the U.S. LNG export arena, enterprise value of $25 billion;

Atlas Energy, LP (ticker: ATLS), a master limited partnership with operations spanning more than 12 plays across the United States, enterprise value of $2 billion;

Core Laboratories (ticker: CLB), a leading oilservice provider of reservoir optimization and production enhancement technologies with a specialty in deepwater applications, $5 billion enterprise value.

Conference Media Coverage

Oil & Gas 360®, CNBC and Fox Business will provide media coverage from the conference Aug. 17-20. Company presentations will be webcast live from the conference on www.oilandgas360.com. Oil & Gas 360® will provide daily conference updates via "Closing Bell," its end-of-day email distribution of industry news and closing commodity, indices and currency prices.

Founded in 1994, EnerCom, Inc. provides oil and gas branding, marketing and valuation solutions to the entire oil and gas industry. The Company's professionals have more than 150 years of industry and business experience and a proven track record of success. Headquartered in Denver, EnerCom uses the team approach for delivering its wide range of services to public and private companies, large and small, operating in the global oil and gas industry. The firm also produces two annual investment conferences.

For more information about EnerCom and its services, please visit http://www.enercominc.com/ or call +1 303-296-8834 to speak with an EnerCom consultant.

About Oil & Gas 360®

Oil & Gas 360® (www.oilandgas360.com) is the financially-focused, online industry news outlet of EnerCom, Inc., which recently achieved one million page views. The site delivers industry news updates, feature stories, exclusive interviews and an up-to-the-minute earnings calendar for a global network of oil and gas industry leaders and energy investment professionals. Oil & Gas 360® will provide detailed coverage from The Oil & Gas Conference® 20, including inside coverage from company breakout sessions, live webcasts and one-on-one interviews with keynote speakers and public companies in the industry.